Syosset Station Enhancement

Project Overview

Syosset Station on the Port Jefferson Branch serves approximately 6,041 weekday customers. The station is receiving enhancements, including platform renewal, new LED platform lighting and CCTV security cameras. The station building’s interior facilities are being completely renovated, including its restrooms – other customer amenities include improved signage, information displays, public art, USB charging stations and free public Wi-Fi. The plaza area surrounding the station and the pedestrian overpass will also be rehabilitated to improve the customer experience.

Enhancements to the Syosset Station are part of a broader LIRR initiative to support the growth and development of Long Island.

Whether by seeing or feeling, passengers know they’re at the edge of a train platform thanks to these ubiquitous bumpy yellow tiles. Invented by Seiichi Miyake, the first tactile warning strips we installed in Okayama, Japan on March 18, 1967 next to a school for the blind. To this day...

If you’re waiting for a train – or you’ve just stepped off one – and your smartphone or tablet or laptop is out of power, the LIRR has a solution for you: you can now find freestanding USB charging stations and/or technology counters at 19 LIRR stations. These stations are:...

Construction is advancing at Syosset Station. The steel frame for the new station building has been erected, wooden walls are being constructed and six new windows have been installed. There is a new bench with seating for four and a new USB charging station in each shelter on the eastbound…

Construction has begun at Syosset Station. A temporary ticket office and waiting room is now open in the parking lot, and construction has begun on a new station building, with a target completion date end of January 2019. Lumber has been delivered, termite repair sheeting and framing are ongoing. Crews…

Long Island is in the midst of historic change. For years, as other regions invested in areas like quality, affordable rental housing, mixed-use development, and public transit, LI was content with the status quo.

We sat silent as we watched droves of young people — educated in our outstanding public schools at significant expense — leave home and help create economic growth in other regions of our country.

A $5.6 billion transformation of the Long Island Rail Road is underway, the biggest slate of investments the railroad has received in decades. All told, the money will fund 100 LIRR capital projects and radically upgrade the customer experience of the nation’s second largest commuter railroad. By the time all…

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a historic $5.6 billion transformation of the Long Island Rail Road to strengthen the region’s transportation infrastructure and usher in a new era of economic growth. After 70 years of stagnation, all 100 transformative LIRR capital projects are moving forward, including the Main Line…